Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riots were biggest and worst in Greater Berlin, most extensive city on the European Continent (area 348 sq. mi.). While unconcerned tourists strolled Unter den Linden, the northwest suburbs of Berlin became a welter of knifing, bludgeoning and wild shots. Communists, defending their homes, ripped up paving stones, barricaded streets, stuffed their barricades with mattresses. The leader of a Fascist charge was shot dead as he went over the Red top. Police, clubbing furiously, no sooner restored order in one street than rioting broke out in the next...
When Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) has Jane Parker in his den, the picture really gets into its stride. The ground below the trees becomes alive with tigers, lions, zebras, waterbucks, crocodiles and savage dwarfs. Tarzan is a match for all of them. When a member of the Parker expedition shoots him in the head, he is too tough to mind it and shows his stamina by immediately strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives...
...medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...
...course in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics is announced at the Harvard Engineering School, to be given by Dr. J. P. Den Hartog this fall for the first time. The course involves the study of the flow of fluids and of air with special reference to airplanes and airships. Dr. Den Hartog is head of the Dynamics Section of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories at East Pittsburgh...
...motored down from the hills yesterday to indulge his hobby. For the Vagabond is a connoisseur, a collector of personalities. Among his subjects he browses as an antiquarian among his antiques. However, and in this the antiquarians, the collectors are more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects "on the hoof...